Monday, 31 March 2008

After a long a vicious battle [Democrats] are reduced to a choice between a member of a racist cult or a women who wouldn’t know the truth if it bit her. So the solution is a member of a cult that does its upmost to suppress the truth?

Neither the Clinton machine nor the Obamessiah movement will accept Gore. If anyone can make McCain look good it’s the Democrats.

The advent of Internet Explorer 8.0 prompts this terrific (long) article by Joel Spolsky that ties together the problems of manufacturing headsets on mars, defining “kosher” among the ultraorthodox, and finding your favorite menu command in Office 2007... and uses them to explain why you’re probably going to have to recode your web pages, again.

(This is actually about lighting conventional art with a multicolor-LED source, not about using LEDs to construct art objects. The results are similar to what you get by lighting paintings with full-theatrical RGB lighting, and then varying the source color balance. The article includes construction information and materials lists, of interest because most of us don’t own a set of border lights and the associated dimmers.)

Thursday, 06 March 2008

I saw shelves and shelves of roleplaying games like D&D, GURPS and Vampire, card games like Magic and Munchkin, miniatures games like Warhammer, just dozens and dozens - hundreds, in fact - of games, toys, dice, gamer comic books, gamer collectibles, you name it.

“You know,” I said, to nobody in particular. “If it hadn't been for Gary and Dave (Arneson), none of this would probably be here.” - John Kovalic